Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

The mind's only perfect vassal.

To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.